Title: The Colossus Rises
Published: February 5th 2013 by HarperCollins
Source: Paperback Genre: Fantasy, Middle Garde
Synopsis:
Jack McKinley is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. In six months, Jack is going to die.
After
Jack collapses in the middle of a busy street, he's whisked off to a
strange hospital in a strange place. There are armed guards and weird
kids and fantastic creatures, not to mention no parents, no phones, and
no possibility of escape. The place is run by an odd professor named
Bhegad, who tells Jack that what's killing him is a genetic trait
inherited from the prince of a long-lost civilization. It's destroying
Jack by making him too strong too fast. He'll need to stay strong though
- because it's up to him to save the world.
Review:
I think some
who knows about this book can’t stop comparing it to Percy Jackson, to some it
was just another Percy Jackson, I say if you love the Percy Jackson series go
and try this one. This book tackles about the origin of man’s civilization, a
story of the world’s most advanced civilization, the Atlantis, written in a new
wonderful complicated story.
This starts
with Jack in which he discovered that he has a unique power, a gift that he
inherit from an Atlantis prince, but a gift can also be a curse, a curse that
can kill him. The good thing was Jack is not alone, a secret organization is
willing to help him and the other kids to make their life longer, so Jack and
his friends must take an adventure to find these seven loculi each hidden on
the seven wonders of the ancient world to save their lives and to save our
world from a possible destruction. But where could they find these seven
wonders if six of them no longer exist?
This book
didn’t fail to let us know about Jack and the other characters, to a world we
knew no longer exist, the myth meets the reality. You’ll see clearly the
progress of the world building which makes the story great and fresh.
If you love
ancient civilization, if you love the world’s history back at elementary and high
school, when you’re at full attention when your teacher starts lecturing about
the ancient world and its wonders, if you love adventure, then this book is
really meant for you.
